Archive for the ‘Cyber Security News’ Category

Time has ticked away and many have lost hope for finding the lost Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, but it is not stopping cybercriminals from leveraging the tragedy to spread malware through Email and Facebook.
It was noted back in early March by computer security researchers that hackers and cybercrooks took ...

It may be stunning to know that everyday computer users are scammed through phishing sites. What may be somewhat of a mystery is the idea of cybercriminals abusing legitimate technologies to make their phishing operations more effective, such as through the use of wildcard certificates.
Wildcard certificates are public key ...

It is a rather old technique for hackers to distribute malware through fake Flash Player update notifications or downloads. However, as old as this technique may be, it still works, which is why cybercrooks are taking to SkyDrive to distribute malware using yet another Flash Player update notifications.
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Researchers at the internet security firm Fox IT have found a malware infection that has served up malicious advertisements through Yahoo infecting about 27,000 users every hour. This attack started off with malicious ads that redirected users to an infected site then used security holds in Java to install ...

There are many search terms that have proven to be among the most risky when it comes to clicking on result links within most search engines. Placed at the top of the list of most dangerous search terms remains to be celebrities and Lily Collins, daughter of musician Phil ...

A crafty spam campaign that spreads a variation of the Android malware known as FakeDefender has been identified by researchers at FireEye.
The FakeDefender threat has been found to utilize methods that trick Android device users to make them think that their device is infected with malware, and they ...

HootSuite, the popular website for online brand management services, has had several accounts hacked to serve up links to scammy diet websites through Twitter.
In the past, hackers have placed their crosshairs on services like Facebook and Twitter to hack accounts to spread malicious links that may eventually lead to ...